I was off on my initial assessment of the processing and shipping time for Sideshow. I had originally thought it would be a few days after Christmas that we'd start seeing these, but this was a very pleasant surprise for sure.

I have pictures of Hasbro's version on the left for comparison. This is probably as perfect a figure as you can ask for. The extra hands, saber (and the holo Leia) just add to an incredibly detailed figure and, IMHO, the best one Sideshow has made.

*Sorry, I guess you'll have to scroll to the bottom and move the slide bar to the right in order to fit the pictures in the screen.*

Hey, hey, hey! Old Ben has made his way to my house. I was getting a little worried since UPS normally doesn't deliver until after 5:00pm around here, but they just showed up at 2:15pm to deliver Obi-Wan to me. I'm leaving town in just a little while, so I was concerned that he might have to sit outside all night and all day tomorrow until I got home, but it's all good.

This marks the first time I've ever gotten a 12" Sideshow figure without a piece of tissue paper in between the two windows. There's no damage, but that's just strange. Great figure though and I couldn't be more pleased with the job that Sideshow did with it. The little blue Holographic Leia is simply beautiful!